SHERIFF JOE TO OBAMA: LET'S MEET 'MAN TO MAN' TO DISCUSS IMMIGRATION

Defiant and reflective, 80-year-old Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff
Joe Arpaio told Breitbart News after winning re-election that he has a
message for President Barack Obama: granting amnesty to illegal
immigrants is unfair to legal immigrants.

And Arpaio would like to discuss amnesty -- along with border
security issues -- with Obama “man to man” directly at the White House.
He would also like to reach out to Hispanic groups he said have
misunderstood his intentions and bought into the negative “propaganda”
about him.

“I wish the president would invite me to the White House,” Arpaio told
Breitbart News. “We’ll have some wine and beer, and light up cigars.”

When it comes to potential amnesty provisions being discussed in
Washington, Arpaio said he is against amnesty because, to him, it is a
fairness issue the elite media and career politicians in Washington do
not understand.

“It's a fairness issue, nobody thinks about that,” Arpaio said. “Why
should we reward people who come here illegally?” Arpaio noted that
“everybody around the world is waiting for years to come here” and “they
don’t all come sneaking in.” “I'm an old-time guy, I just use common
sense,” Arpaio said. Arpaio said he wanted to talk “man to man” with Obama, whose
administration recently accused him of a “pattern” of misconduct that
violated the civil rights of Hispanics in Maricopa County and sued him
for what Arpaio says was his merely following the immigration
enforcement laws that were on the books.Arapaio insists he was just enforcing Arizona’s S.B. 1070 immigration
law, which requires officers -- after detaining individuals for other
crimes -- to ask those who they reasonably suspect may be illegal
immigrants for documentation. The Supreme Court upheld this particular
provision, which the left calls the “papers, please” provision. And a
majority of Americans, as a Breitbart News/Judicial Watch Election Night
exit poll found, favor Arizona-style immigration laws.

Arpaio wants politicians to quit saying they “must secure the border
first” before discussing other immigration issues, because he sees
those words as code words to punt on issues in the interior that are
just as important. “They’ll never secure the border 100 percent,” Arpaio
said. “So it’s a cop-out so you don’t do anything in the interior.”Since Arpaio first got elected in 1993, he has been reviled by the
left, he says, for just doing his job and enforcing the law in the
interior. And this year, he had to raise over $8 million dollars to ward
off an organized effort on the left to get former Phoenix police Sgt.
Paul Penzone to defeat him. “They tried to destroy me,” said Arpaio, who
won with 53% of the vote. “The more they go after me, the more I fight.
I'm still standing.”

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) also sued Arpaio and Maricopa
County, accusing Arpaio of violating the Fourth Amendment in his “zeal
to rid the community of persons that it believes are undocumented
immigrants.” Arpaio said he is “not going to surrender to the ACLU” even
though they -- and groups on the left -- “really went after me this
election cycle.”

Arpaio said part of the reason why the left reviles him is because they
think he is prejudiced against his inmates. Arpaio acknowledged that he
does things differently, but it is for “deterrence” and not “to be
mean.”He said he wanted potential criminals to see his chain gangs and not
ever want to come to his jails. And he wants his inmates to not want to
come to his jails again. "If they don’t like it, don’t come back to my
jails,” Arpaio said.

He noted many of his arrests are for drug offenses, stolen
identification, and he takes people off the street that could harm
people in the Hispanic community. He also said that he harshly deals
with those who are found to have abused their dogs or cats.

Arpaio said much of this has been lost amidst the “propaganda” against
him, and so he would like to make concerted efforts to reach out to the
Hispanic community to engage in dialogue these next four years.

Known for his tent-city jails, putting inmates in pink jumpsuits and
underwear, and ferociously enforcing immigration laws that are on the
books, Arpaio said he has discovered recently he could get more done
through constructive dialogue than through bluster. And that will be one
of his major goals the next four years. He noted he discussed border security issues over blueberry pie and
whiskey with Mexico’s president and attorney general, and he would also
like to do the same with members of the Hispanic community whom he says
have misunderstood his intentions by believing all of the “propaganda”
about him. “I got more done with blueberry pie than a big stick,” Arpaio
said.

And he insists he could have productive discussions with Obama. “I won’t
even ask you for your birth certificate,” Arpaio quipped, of Obama.

And for those hoping Arpaio will leave the stage, Arpaio said to not
even think about it. He has already decided to run for reelection in
2016, and he says the “age issue” is not going to work. Arpaio said his
opponents threw the age card at him but it did not matter to
voters. “I'm a senior citizen, and I'm proud of it,” Arpaio said.

Arpaio said he wanted to announce he would be seeking another term so
his opponents did not view him as a lame duck. “I won’t be a lame duck.
I’m not going anywhere,” Arpaio said. “I’m a fighter.”